Late WWII Focke-Wulf FW-190 D-9

[Terry Sumner]

Built this one for BayCon club challenge on Sunday 11/06. The challenge is for any other modeler to build this same aircraft better than mine! Shouldn't be too hard I think with the problems I had with this build! LOL

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And yes I know about the paint wrinkling. Just didn't have enough time to fix it before the show. Oh well...it will look ok in my display case....

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[62rebel]

what scale is that? i'm thinking 1/72, myself..... and i wouldn't fret about paint. in action, as long as it stuck, it stayed.

[Terry Sumner]

1/48th scale. Finally finished it up this afternoon. Here's a pic of it all finished...

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[Agent G]

Good looking Dora. The colors are spot on.

What paint did you use?

G

[Terry Sumner]

Thanks much Wayne. I used the RLM colors from Whire Ensign Models which I bought from Mid-Tenn hobby shop over the internet. My first time with this paint and I really liked it!

Edited November 8, 2011 by Terry Sumner

[Dr. Cranky]

That looks very good. I like the base too. Good work.

[Tom Setzer]

Nice Dora, you did a good job on the Camo paint. The Dora is one of my favorite scale aircraft subjects!

CHEERS!

Tom

[Art Anderson]

USAF Museum's Dora is a testament to how crude German planes became toward war's end: Ill fitting panels, including horrid gaps between sheets of aluminum, lumps and bumps everywhere (not planned, just a severe lack of attention to ensuring that shapes and contours matched, panel to panel. That paddle-bladed prop was anything but smooth--USAF's appears to have been made from laminated wood blades, covered over with bands of cotton-reinforced black rubber.

By contrast, the all-original Ju-87 Stuka (North Africa, 1941-42) that hangs in the transportation gallery at Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry is a masterpiece of the craftsmanship Germany was known for in non-crisis times.

Art

[Harry P.]

USAF Museum's Dora is a testament to how crude German planes became toward war's end:

I'm guessing that when all of your manufacturing facilities and cities have been blown to bits, your military is on the run and the Allies are squeezing you on all fronts, "quality control" is no longer job #1.

[Agent G]

By the end you'd get a D-9 like Art described due to the fact it had been built in sub sections by semi skilled laborers. They would be scattered all over the country side hiding and building their section as best they could. Those different sections would eventually come together as one airplane.

G

Edited November 14, 2011 by Agent G

[Terry Sumner]

You 3 fellas have it exactly right!